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The Middle Classes in Europe 1789-1914

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Pamela M. Pilbeam
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Part of the book series: Themes in Comparative History (TCH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Who Were the Middle Classes?

    • Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 1-22

  3. Economic Interests of the Middle Classes: Entrepreneurs

    • Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 23-54

  4. Economic Interests of the Middle Classes: Bourgeois Landowners

    • Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 55-73

  5. The Middle Classes and the Professions

    • Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 74-106

  6. The Middle Classes and the Bureaucracy

    • Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 107-143

  7. Professional Armies and Civilian Militias

    • Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 144-172

  8. Education and the Middle Classes

    • Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 173-209

  9. The Bourgeois Revolution 1789–1815

    • Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 210-234

  10. The Bourgeoisie and Liberalism

    • Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 235-293

  11. Conclusion

    • Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 294-302

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 303-328
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About this book

The term 'class' has been, and still is, a powerful historical concept. Its exact meaning, however, has remained elusive. In this illuminating study, P.M.Pilbeam compares the middle classes in four of the major states in continental Europe - France, Russia, Germany and Italy - from the French Revolution to the first world war, and reveals how complex any useful definition of class must be. '...a most valuable book, a model of what fruitful comparative history should be...Pilbeam's book succeeds brilliantly in summarising all significant research on the middle classes in France, Germany, Italy and Russia from the outbreak of the French Revolution to the First World War...an ideal guide to this subject at university level.' Journal of Historical Geography.

About the author

PAMELA PILBEAM is Lecturer in History at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London. She has also spent time as visiting associate Professor in Toronto and at York University, Ontario. She has published a number of articles on the French Revolution of 1830 and is currently working on a book on the same subject.

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